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...assigned to teaching for the most part much not be expected to do research work in order to secure promotion but must merit advancement according to their ability to understand their subject, keep up with its developments, and impart it intelligibly to students. Research and enlightenment much aid and abet each other. No educational institution can maintain a prominent position in the educational world which neglects either or allows one to assume a too great preponderance over the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HAPPY MEDIUM | 5/9/1934 | See Source »

Brave, my dear editor, for having shown the underlying current of your policy to aid and abet the movement to overthrow our blessed institutions, yes, to undermine the very roots of our government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...Bruce Blakeley (Harvey Stephens) to support and abet his trying tribe. When his business blessedly fails, he evokes not their sympathy but their ungrateful scorn. Whereupon he does what he has been trying to do all the time, marries his divorcée sweetheart (Katherine Alexander, no kin to Ross), rids himself of his family responsibilities. The party, he tells them in a forceful farewell address, is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

While Wall Street knows that Senator Norbeck will do his best to throttle short sales, that Senator Carter Glass will aid and abet him, it hoped for judicial treatment from Connecticut's Senator Frederic Collin Walcott, onetime vice president in the banking house of Bonbright & Co. A close personal and political friend of the President's, Senator Walcott together with Senator James Couzens persuaded the Committee to investigate bulls as well as bears. "We are not seeking sensational-ism," he said. "And we are going about this in a sane way. There is no intention ... to seek legislation interfering with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Target for Blunderbuss | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...complaints by Globe-flyers William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee that the U. S. Navy had refused to help them, Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur last week said: "As long as I have anything to do with the Navy it will do nothing to aid and abet men to commit suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Personages | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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